Forecast in purchasing with internal system and inventory data

Challenge

• The aim is to develop a forecasting model that makes the purchasing volume per business area transparent and homogeneous.

• Previous decentralised forecasts of the FCA by business areas with partly considerable deviations from the actual situation

Solution

• Linking of purchase orders, material master, general ledger accounts, planning data (TM1) and aggregating the data

• Mapping of the historical ECV at different granularities per month level

• Exploratory correlation analysis between actual and planned data

• Creation of a forecast model using ML methods on the basis of historical ECV data

Result

• Through an automated, data-driven EKV forecast for product groups per business area, deviations from the actual are reduced, transparency is created and planning reliability is increased.

Challenge

An automotive company would like to visualise various market-specific data in order to create a Competitive analysis for the US market.

Solution

There will be a interactive and Flexible application, including of different maps with two different views implemented.

Result

Relevant markets are identifies, analyses and visualises. The dealer or the respective sales department have the possibility to compare the direct competition with their own product and to visualise the relevant data.